Product Owner

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About this Role

We are seeking a Product Owner to provide vision and direction to an Agile development team and its stakeholders. You will identify user needs, define business value and collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage product releases. The role requires previous product ownership experience, an understanding of software development and a commitment to user-centred product design and delivery.

What you’ll do

• Provide a clear product vision and direction to the Agile development team and relevant stakeholders.
• Develop an understanding of the end-to-end customer experience, including key integrations and dependencies.
• Identify user needs and help customers understand the business value of proposed products and solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan and manage product releases.
• Work with business stakeholders to capture, clarify and prioritise requirements.
• Document business requirements and prepare functional and non-functional specifications.
• Translate requirements into clear user stories and maintain a prioritised product backlog.
• Support the development of new business products, solutions and processes.
• Promote user-centred design and development throughout the product lifecycle

Who you are

• You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a comparable combination of education and professional experience.
• You have approximately four years of relevant professional experience.
• Fluency in English is a must
• You have previous experience working as a Product Owner.
• You possess practical knowledge of software development.
• You understand end-to-end customer journeys, system integrations and dependencies.
• You can translate business needs into structured requirements, specifications and user stories.
• You can communicate product direction clearly and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders and Agile development teams.
• You demonstrate a user-centred approach to product design and development.

Not a perfect fit?

Concerned you may not meet every requirement? Vodafone is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align exactly with every aspect of the job description, you are encouraged to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or another opportunity, and the recruitment team will support you in exploring where your skills fit best.

What's in it for you

• The opportunity to influence product vision and direction within an Agile delivery environment.
• Collaboration with business stakeholders, software development teams and other cross-functional partners.
• End-to-end involvement in identifying user needs, defining requirements and supporting product releases.
• Exposure to customer-experience integrations, dependencies and user-centred product development.
• The opportunity to contribute to new business products, solutions and processes.

What skills you will learn

• Product vision development and stakeholder alignment.
• Agile product ownership and product backlog management.
• User-needs analysis and business-value definition.
• Preparation of business requirements and functional and non-functional specifications.
• Translation of requirements into clear, actionable user stories.
• Product-release planning and cross-functional delivery.
• End-to-end customer-experience and integration analysis.
• User-centred product design and development practices.

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At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

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